Monitoring drought dynamics in the Aravalli region (India) using different indices based on ground and remote sensing data

International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 289-302

  Bhuiyan, C ^a   Singh, R P ^a,b   Kogan, F N ^c  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

^b George Mason University   (United States)

^c OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS   (United States)

Author keywords

AVHRR; Drought; GIS; GVI; Monsoon; NDVI; SPI; SWI; TCI; VCI; VHI

Indexed keywords

AVHRR; DROUGHT; DROUGHT STRESS; GIS; MONSOON; NDVI; NOAA SATELLITE; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; REMOTE SENSING;

ARAVALLI RANGE; ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; RAJASTHAN; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 33750930660     PISSN: 15698432     EISSN: 1872826X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jag.2006.03.002     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. Agnew C.T. Using the SPI to identify drought. Drought Network News 12 1 (2000) 6-12
2. Bhuiyan, C., 2004. Various drought indices for monitoring drought condition in Aravalli terrain of India. In: Proceedings of the XXth ISPRS Conference. Int. Soc. Photogramm. Remote Sens., Istanbul (Available at: http://www.isprs.org/istanbul2004/comm7/papers/243.pdf).
3. In: Brown L. (Ed). State of the World (2001), Worldwealth Institute, Diamond-Sha, Tokyo p. 422
4. Doi R.D. Vegetational response of rainfall in Rajasthan using AVHRR Imagery. J. Indian Soc. Remote Sens. 29 4 (2001) 213-224
5. Dracup J.A., Lee K.S., and Paulson Jr. E.G. On the definition of droughts. Water Resour. Res. 16 2 (1980) 297-302
6. Department of Science and Technology (DST). Resource Atlas of Rajasthan (1994), Government of Rajasthan, India, Jaipur p. 28
7. Edwards D.C., and McKee T.B. Characteristics of 20th Century Drought in the United States at Multiple Time Scales. Climatology Report Number 97-2 (1997), Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO pp. 1-155
8. Gibbs W.J., and Maher J.V. Rainfall Deciles as Drought Indicators. Bureau of Meteorology Bulletin No. 48 (1967), Commonwealth of Australia, Melbourne
9. Ground Water Department (GWD), Government of Rajasthan, India, 2000. Annual Report (Unpublished). p. 37.
10. Guttman N.B. Comparing the Palmer Drought Index and the Standardized Precipitation Index. J. Am. Water Resour. Assoc. 34 1 (1998) 113-121
11. Guttman N.B. Accepting the Standardized Precipitation Index: a calculation algorithm. J. Am. Water Resour. Assoc. 35 2 (1999) 311-322
12. Keyantash J., and Dracup J.A. An aggregate drought index: assessing drought severity based on fluctuations in the hydrologic cycle and surface water storage. Water Resour. Res. 40 (2004) 10.1029/2003WR002610 (W09304)
13. Kogan F.N. Remote sensing of weather impacts on vegetation in non-homogeneous areas. Int. J. Remote Sens. 11 8 (1990) 1405-1419
14. Kogan F.N. Application of vegetation index and brightness temperature for drought detection. Adv. Space Res. 15 11 (1995) 91-100
15. Kogan F.N. Operational space technology for global vegetation assessment. Bull. Am. Meteorol. Soc. 82 9 (2001) 1949-1964
16. Kogan F.N. World droughts in the new millennium from AVHRR-based Vegetation Health Indices. Eos Trans. Am. Geophy. Union 83 48 (2002) 562-563
17. Kogan F.N., Gitelson A., Edige Z., Spivak I., and Lebed L. AVHRR-based spectral vegetation index for quantitative assessment of vegetation state and productivity: calibration and validation. Photogramm. Eng. Remote Sens. 69 8 (2003) 899-906
18. Komuscu A.U. Using the SPI to analyze spatial and temporal patterns of drought in Turkey. Drought Network News 11 1 (1999) 7-13
19. Kondoh A., Harto A.B., Eleonora R., and Kojiri T. Hydrological regions in monsoon Asia. Hydrol. Process. 18 (2004) 3147-3158
20. McKee, T.B., Doesken, N.J., Kleist, J., 1993. The relation of drought frequency and duration to time scales. Proceedings of the Eighth Conference on Applied Climatology. Am. Meteorol. Soc. Boston, pp. 179-184.
21. McKee, T.B., Doesken, N.J., Kleist, J., 1995. Drought monitoring with multiple time scales. In: Proceedings of the Ninth Conference on Applied Climatology, Am. Meteorol. Soc. Boston, pp. 233-236.
22. Palmer, W.C., 1965. Meteorological drought. Research Paper No. 45, U.S. Department of Commerce Weather Bureau, Washington, DC.
23. Palmer W.C. Keeping track of crop moisture conditions, nationwide: The new Crop Moisture Index. Weatherwise 21 (1968) 156-161
24. Peters E., Torfs P.J.J.F., van Lanen H.A.J., and Bier G. Propagation of drought through groundwater-a new approach using linear reservoir theory. Hydrol. Processes 17 (2003) 3023-3040
25. Samra, J.S., 2004. Review and analysis of drought monitoring, declaration and management in India. Working Paper 84. International Water Management Institute, Colombo, Sri Lanka, pp. 1-31.
26. Shafer B.A., and Dezman L.E. Development of a Surface Water Supply Index (SWSI) to assess the severity of drought conditions in snowpack runoff areas. Proceedings of the Western Snow Conference. Fort Collins, CO (1982) 164-175
27. Singh R.P., and Kogan F.N. Monitoring vegetation condition from NOAA operational polar-orbiting satellites over Indian region. J. Indian Soc. Remote Sens. 30 3 (2002) 117-118
28. Singh R.P., Roy S., and Kogan F.N. Vegetation and temperature condition indices from NOAA-AVHRRA data for drought monitoring over India. Int. J. Remote Sens. 24 22 (2003) 4393-4402
29. United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), 2002. UNDP Mission Report on Drought Damage Assessment and Agricultural Rehabilitation for Drought Affected Districts of Rajasthan Draft 2, pp. 1-20 (Available at: http://www.undp.org.in/dmweb/RAJASTHAN%20DROUGHT.pdf, accessed on: 18th November 2005).
30. Waple A.M., and Lawrimore J.H. State of the climate in 2003. Bull. Am. Meteorol. Soc. Boston 84 6 (2002) S1-S68